36 ~ Sunday, February 8, 1987 - Nerth Shore News

Lifestyles -

void shop. talk
at your parties

DEAR MISS MANNERS — My husband is a medical resi-
dent. Around laymen, he is quite witty, but as soon as other
residents come near, he becomes unable to discuss anything

but medicine.

At social events involving resi-
dents and their spouses, it is im-
possible to wrest conversation
away from medicine or money.

by Judith
- Martin

I usually take refuge with the
age-50-or-above group, who are
discussing literature, art or music
— subjects to which I can con-
tribute something.

Is there anything I can do short
of forsaking my own. generation?
And what can I de. when only my

generation is around? [ was
brought up to believe that one
didn’t discuss money or one’s job,
beyond certain general comments,
in social situations.

GENTLE READER — The best
ways to avoid special interest
groups at social functions is to mix
the guest list.

Too many people with too much
in common — the same profession
or employer; the same
background, such as having gone
to schoil together; the same per-
sonal milestone, such as having a
new baby — always produce
single-topic conversation. ;

You can’t prevent it. The best
solution is either to have no non-
participants there at all or to have
encugh of them — such as all the
residents’ spouses — to conduct

separate conversetion. These are ©
really two types of, office parties.

and not true social functions.

Miss Manners suggests that you .

simply tolerate some shop-talk oc-
casions in exchange for an agree-

ment to participate in. genuine, ©

general-interest parties.

But she begs you not to consider
age to be one of those categories
that bind people in a single-interest
group. Mixing the generations is,
in fact, an excellent way to en-
courage mixed viewpoints and in-
terests.

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